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What a Family
The Duggar family are an Arkansas family, headed by Jim Bob Duggar and
Michelle Duggar, who have been repeatedly featured in the news and
entertainment media for having seventeen children. The family has been filmed
for Discovery Health Channel and The Learning Channel television. On May 9,
Michelle Duggar announced on the Today Show that she is pregnant with their
18th child and is due on New Years Day 2009.
This man and his wife both sell real estate for a living. Although, I doubt she sells
much as she also home schools all the kids!! What a job.. Notice how neat their
house is kept. The folks on the Today Show said that when this family left their
green room (the place they go before they are on the show), it was cleaner than it
was when they came. Shows it can be done with organization and I'm sure they
have lots of that with a family that big. They also built their own home.
The Duggars' ten sons and seven daughters (including two sets of fraternal twins:
one boy/girl set and one boy/boy set), all of whom have names which begin with
the letter J, are as follows:
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No. |
Names |
Date of Birth |
Little Information |
| 1 |
Joshua James |
March3,1988 (1988-03-03) (age 20) |
oldest child;
getting married 9/26/08 to Anna Keller |
| 2 |
Jana Marie |
January12, 1990 (1990-01-12) (age 18) |
twin of
John-David |
| 3 |
John-David |
January 12, 1990 (1990-01-12) (age 18) |
twin of Jana
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| 4 |
Jill Michelle |
May
17, 1991 (1991-05-17) (age 17) |
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| 5 |
Jessa Lauren |
November 4, 1992 |
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| 6 |
Jinger Nicole |
December 21, 1993 |
pronounced like
"Ginger" |
| 7 |
Joseph Garrett |
January 20, 1995 |
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| 8 |
Josiah Matthew |
August 28, 1996 |
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| 9 |
Joy-Anna |
October 28, 1997 |
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| 10 |
Jeremiah Robert |
December 30, 1998 |
twin of
Jedidiah |
| 11 |
Jedidiah Robert |
December 30, 1998 |
twin of
Jeremiah |
| 12 |
Jason Michael |
April 21, 2000 |
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| 13 |
James Andrew |
July 7, 2001 |
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| 14 |
Justin Samuel |
November 15, 2002 |
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| 15 |
Jackson Levi |
May
23, 2004 |
birth featured
on Discovery Health Channel special |
| 16 |
Johannah Faith |
October 11, 2005 |
birth featured
on Discovery Health Channel special |
| 17 |
Jennifer Danielle |
August 2, 2007 |
birth featured
on Discovery Health Channel special |
| 18 |
Junborn |
due on New Year's Day 2009. |
announced May
9, 2008 |
Family life
Jim Bob Duggar and his wife Michelle, who was named Young Mother of the Year
in Arkansas in 2004, are conservative Baptists who endorse the Quiverfl movement
and the teachings of Bill Gothard. Mr. Duggar is a former state legislator who served
in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2002. He is now a real
estate agent.
Jim Bob Duggar and his wife report that their children are blessings from God,
since his wife miscarried while on birth control and was able to conceive
many more times once she stopped taking birth control!
The Duggars live debt-free, which Mr. Duggar has said is "the fruit of Jim Sammon's
Financial Freedom Seminar" he attended years ago.
The Duggars raise their children using the buddy system, in which an older sibling raises
a younger sibling, instead of the parents doing it themselves. The older buddy "will get
the younger ones' meals." According to Mrs. Duggar, "They help them with their little
phonics lessons and games during the day and help them practice their music lessons.
They will play with them or help them pick out the color of their outfit that they want to
wear that day, and just all of those types of things.
~WOW !
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